Sci-Fi Science Fiction & Cli-Fi Climate Fiction author

Month: November 2012

photo by IAN JOUGHIN One heck of a big ice-cube: There are at least 22 million cubic kilometres of land ice on Antarctica, about 2.5 million cubic kilometres on Greenland and another 2.5 million cubic kilometres on the Arctic polar margins of Siberia, Northern Canada, Alaska and Asia. This is a total of … More SEA-LEVEL AND MELTDOWN

We seven billion Earth people can have all the energy we want for our industries, homes and hobbies AND we can eliminate pollution. As from about 1850, just one hundred and sixty-two years ago, mankind has taken the first blundering steps towards understanding and applying the beginning of the electrical and electronic revolution; swiftly followed … More POWER HUNGRY and POWER MAD

Death of the Higgs. SADLY:- The HIGGS does not confer mass, says CERN; at least not much mass “approximately a fingernail of mass compared to the whole human body” ******* I wrote a Higgs update recently, before the excitement of the US Presidential election, and wondered what the news is after 4 months since CERN found it. HAVE FAITH … More THAT PESKY HIGGS BOSON

Oh Where, tell me Where; has my true Higgs Boson gone? A GOOGLE search on 4th November 2012, 4 months after CERN spotted something that looked very like the Higgs Boson (and thus the Higgs Field), brings little or no updated news. It did turn up this Huffington Post video “explaining” the Higgs, which does feature the prettiest Higgs presenter … More HAVE FAITH IN THE HIGGS BOSON

ARE THE LAND BASED ICE-CAPS MELTING? KISS – KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID Mayor Bloomberg’s critique of Senator Mitt Romney’s denial of Climate Change – and of Romney’s other about-face reversals of previously sane policies – still fudges and allows obfuscation of the sharp edges of the debate. Michael Bloomberg writes “…while the increase in extreme … More CLIMATE CHANGE and NEW YORK